Thread: What to do with medical charts?

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I got these at the Dollarama here in canada want to know what I can do to make them look old or creepier. they are made of Plastic, a little thicker than paper. I have also bought some thin foam boards I can use with them. ANY IDEAS WHAT I CAN DO?

I'd cut the edges off, so It's just the white paper and skeletons to make it look a little meaner! As to aging it, you may just want to try some water colors and get an appearance you like and then seal it!

These would make a good addition to any lab/scientist scene, or maybe perhaps an office of an eccentric professor. You could try and frame them, or cut the skeletons out and add your own text.. If you search for necronomicon pages you may find some inspiration!



Good luck!

Since they are printed on plastic, you're going to have a bit of difficulty with getting them to age up really well. They won't take water-based paint well at all.

I totally agree with cutting off the edges so you don't have the frilly scalloped frames on them. You probably will be able to use paints like spraypaint (could test the back side) and I could see getting a few colors (mossy green, black, mustard yellow) and spattering them with a little of each, but increasing the paint along the edges. Then get a lovely bright red and flicking drops across like someone bled across them... letting some of it run down the surface. (spray up close to get a tight, thick "arterial blood" look). Be careful spraying directly, since it's real easy to get too much paint onto the surface and then obscure something completely that you wanted to just accent.

The hubby and I did this with a shower curtain a few years ago and it worked well: use spray paints and medical gloves. Wearing the gloves, I could spray my hands and leave bloody handprints, spray a small amount into my hands and then flick my fingers at the surface to get nice droplets and smear and smudge along edges and the like.

If you wore the gloves, you could almost fingerpaint the surface and really get a nice smudgy effect along the edges... even leave a big handprint on the surface. That would creep them up nicely.

Also, what about making a fake knife (out of foamcore) and having it stabbing through one of the posters? You just cut a tiny slit in the poster, slide the fake knife through enough to where you're happy with how it looks from the front, then mark the knife on the other side where to cut it off and then cut it off and either hot glue or tape on the backside somehow so the knife stays put.

Here is a tutorial on making a fake cleaver:
Safe foamcore meat cleaver.

Also, the digestive poster? What about writing with a sharpie (test to see if that works) weird stuff about the various "meat choices" like "liver - good with fava beans" and anything else that occurs and sounds creepy. Like a it's a cannibal's chart for the best cuts of organ meat (OMG sometimes I stop and think what I'm writing and wonder if there is really something deeply wrong with me that I think up this stuff! )



Also, I made this out of that foamboard that you find in dollar stores:
Obelisk for under $6

I love taking normal everyday stuff and creeping it up for props!

gret info guys and dolls, Ill test on that extra one I got for free by accident . Im also going to try and take sandpaper and rough it up a bit to remove some of the gloss, and maybe tea stain it, im going to try a whole whack a mole of stuff with your suggestions.

Oil based wood stain might darken them up a bit. You could test it on the back of them.